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Alexander Litvinenko

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Who am I?

Hi everyone! My name is Alexander Litvineneko! I'm a software engineer, ethical hacker and enthusiast.

Have you ever had a situation when you needed to virtually place yourself into a different city, country, or continent for whatever reason? Being a software developer and, at the same time, being very passionate about Internet and cyber security, I have such a need very often, and, therefore, the ability to quickly start reliable VPN server with a decent level of security is essential.

Nowadays, the quickest possible way to launch anything anywhere is Docker. Many hosting platforms already provide VPS with preinstalled Docker and even if it’s not the case — it’s a matter of just a couple of minutes to install it yourself. Having this said, for me it was a no-brainer that the service I needed should be a Docker image. Of course, there are thousands of such images on Docker Hub, just try to make a search by “openvpn” keyword and you will end up with more than 50 pages listing different images. But none of them sufficed my needs: they were either too complicated in setup (the most popular image requires a volume container and few “docker run” commands with different set of parameters) or lacked decent documentation, or were abandoned long ago. At some point I got tired trying to find an existing solution and decided to make my own openvpn docker image.

I began my work on the Docker-Openvpn project vigorously and kept working at a good pace all the time, though sometimes it felt like I went down the wrong way and I had to go back to the drawing board. For instance, when I realised that Ubuntu was rather a bad choice to use as a base image, I had to start everything anew with Alpine Linux. Nonetheless, the project saw the daylight very soon and now I’m very proud to present it to the wide audience.

What do I need money for?

I plan to elaborate my current work to the extent it meets highest industrial-grade security standards providing end-users the possibility to enjoy the same level (or exceeding) of security as Tor or similar software provide. ParticularIy, I plan to develop new VPN protocol which allows nodes chaining traffic perplexing which would be impossible to decipher without knowing how many peers participate in session and what they intended to do

1 sponsor has funded alekslitvinenk’s work.

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To have 10 sponsors for the starter

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Featured work

  1. dockovpn/dockovpn

    🔐 Out of the box stateless openvpn-server docker image which starts in less than 2 seconds

    Shell 1,244
  2. dockovpn/dockovpn-it

    DockOvpn Integration Tests

    Scala
  3. alekslitvinenk/doppler

    💧An easy-go Http server for static files with out-of-the-box logging and admin endpoint for hot content reloading

    Scala 1
  4. alekslitvinenk/dind

    💎Docker in Docker. The working solution

    Shell 41

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This amount is exactly what dockovpn.io project currently spends on servers a month. We rent 2 machines, each of 1CPU-1GB(RAM)-24GB(HDD).

Every such tear would allow me to hire more similar machines to run heavier load tests for better stability and resilience.

Sponsor reward:

  • Every machine will be named after the generous supporter! I will provide screenshot of the control panel
    proving that machines are named after the supporter in regular updates letters.

This tier will retire after 100 sponsors.

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All the software requires computing power to be run on, to communicate with and to be tested on.

This amount will be spent to hire one more machine 1CPU-1GB(RAM)-24GB(HDD).

The sponsor shall receive:

  • Every new hired machine will be named after the generous sponsor.
  • I will expose an http/https endpoint like SPONSOR_NAME.dockovpn.io serving a web page with the gratitude letter to this sponsor.

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Every author of the software, especially the open-source one, needs a software to write code with and design with. There are plenty of the convenient code editors and IDEs that ease life considerably. To name but few,
IntelliJ Idea, Adobe Creative Cloud. They are all distributed as SAAS (Software as a Service) with monthly fee.

This is a very valuable contribution which will allow me to work more efficiently. I will reward sponsors with the following:

  • Every file of the open-source software that I create will contain a head note:

    /* This software was made possible with the generous support of LIST OF SPONSOR NAMES */

This tear will retire after 25 sponsors.

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It is hardly possible to create any bit of the software without hardware, a reliable one. It takes months of saving to scrape the necessary amount to make an upgrade of the laptop, let alone purchasing a new one.

With the support under this tear I will be able to save money to buy a new laptop when the need be.

As a reward, the sponsor will get:

  • Every file of the open-source software that I create will contain a head note:

    /* This software was made possible with the generous support of LIST OF SPONSOR NAMES */

  • I will add Sponsors section in README file, where I will place sponsor's avatars and logos.
  • In every video tutorial I produce I will mention sponsors of this tier.

This tier will retire after 10 sponsors.